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βThe eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second;
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What does this quotation mean?
Emerson opens a meditation on how each understanding can be surrounded by a larger one.
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Source: Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson , Circles
Edition: Edna H. L. Turpin selection
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